Raspberry Pi Archives — Eric Burns Online

RaspberryPi and Safecracking

May 13, 2024 Creative Projects Raspberry Pi No Comments

Two friends both have a safe or two where they don’t know the combination – either the family member that owned it has passed, or they’ve forgotten it. I’ve read about using a Single Board Computer (like a Raspberry Pi) and a stepper motor to manually do the different combinations.…

Learning to Program and Interact with Hardware – and Perhaps Building That Minimally Viable Product

Want to learn to program? Combine that with learning electronics? Perhaps your goal is to get hired or get promoted. Maybe so you can build an MVP (Minimally Viable Product) with which to get funding or attract a startup team? Let me tell you about an inexpensive circuit board…

Enhancing your Raspberry Pi Experience

June 22, 2022 Raspberry Pi Technical Tutorials & Developer Education No Comments

A few years into working with RaspberryPi Single Board Computers (SBCs) I’ve come across a few items that enhance the experience. The systems are already remarkably inexpensive, and for a few dollars more you can become even more efficient working with them. Good For All The first item I ran…

Let the Raspberry Pi 400 Solve your Virtual Event Supply Chain Issues

April 24, 2022 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi No Comments

I’ve done a handful of virtual events where a Raspberry Pi was provided as a key component for the attendees. At the time they were plentiful in supply and inexpensive. Unfortunately it is now very challenging, as well as perhaps expensive, to get them in quantity. Especially if you want…

Raspberry Pi – Teaching Electronics + Programming in Large Virtual Events Part 2

May 13, 2021 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi Startups Technical Tutorials & Developer Education No Comments

In Part 1 I covered a key overview of the additional items that can be used to do an interactive event where the participants get to work with both electronics and code on a Raspberry Pi. It needed to be firtst since there are so many options and many pitfalls. …

Raspberry Pi – Teaching Electronics + Programming in Large Virtual Events Part 1

April 23, 2021 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi Startups Technical Tutorials & Developer Education No Comments

The Raspberry Pi Foundation was founded in 2009 to teach basic computer science. Inexpensive, standardized and versatile. If you are going to leverage them to teach electronics in a larger setting, especially virtual events, there are some best practices that will reduce friction, allow you to teach larger groups and…

How to Include a Raspberry Pi in a Remote Demo – Part 2

March 20, 2021 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi Technical Tutorials & Developer Education No Comments

A few posts back I had an article on How to Include a Raspberry Pi in a Remote Demo. We just did another virtual event leveraging Raspberry Pis with more than 3 dozen attendees. and I’ve discovered a few more tricks I’d like to share. A minor one was the…

How to Include a Raspberry Pi in a Remote Demo – Part 1

January 30, 2021 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi Technical Tutorials & Developer Education No Comments

Raspberry Pi single board computers have been around for more than 8 years now. They are great for IoT (Internet of Things), learning about InfoSec (Information Security), as a portable/inexpensive development environment or working into events to teach programming or electronics. When the time comes to do a virtual course…

VNC, A Quick Introduction

November 30, 2020 High Level Tech Intro Raspberry Pi Technical Tutorials & Developer Education No Comments

When I started in tech, the command line was everything. You’d telnet (gasp!) or ssh into different systems and do your updates, upgrades and configurations. More and more systems now have a UI now, and not everything can be done via web page. So how do you remotely (and securely!)…